Just realized that one of my thermostats has died on me. Not sure why, but Petco and Petsmart are both completely out of replacements and the earliest I can get one by mail is Friday. What can I do in the mean time? I don’t want to use the UTH with no thermostat but I’m wondering how to conserve heat until I can get my new one. This is for a ball python. The room they’re in sits at about 75 degrees room temp which isn’t exactly ideal.

Try a plug in dimmer switch. I stopped using thermostats (until I can afford a nice pulse-power type) with my CHE’s. I also bought some inexpensive digital hygrometer/thermometers for each enclosure. I was shortening the life of my CHE’s by using on/off type thermostats. Just plug lamp into dimmer switch and fine tune it for your enclosures.

Oh that’s a great idea, I might have to get some dimmers then as back ups. I did eventually get my replacement thermostat and all the reptiles are fine but it’d be good to be ready for any short notice stuff in the future.